June Awareness Days: Content Inspiration For Your Photography Blog And Social Media
If you find yourself struggling for content ideas for your photography blog or social media posts, have you ever thought about using national awareness days as content prompts? If not, I strongly suggest giving it a try!
Few things are more frustrating than staring at an empty screen knowing that you need to create content to promote your photography, yet being utterly clueless about what to write.
This is precisely where awareness days can come to the rescue. Every year, there are hundreds of awareness days in each calendar month and this means that there’s a wealth of potential topics you can use to inspire captivating content ideas!
Related: A step-by-step guide to using awareness days in your photo marketing content
Awareness days are invaluable as content prompts
Consider this: an awareness day centred around a specific theme or topic has the potential to unlock a multitude of photography marketing content ideas throughout the year.
“How?”, you might ask. Well, when used as prompts, you may discover that the chosen theme of an awareness day, awareness week, or monthly campaign sparks inspiration and sets your brain into motion. It could trigger the recollection of a compelling story to share with your audience or unearth a memorable experience that might catch their interest, for example.
Given the wide range of topics that awareness days are linked to each and every month, I believe that it’s entirely possible for you to leverage awareness days in your content. By doing so, you can potentially come up with endless content ideas for your photography business!
Related: How to use awareness days to inspire photography content ideas
Free calendar and June awareness days 2025
If you’re reading this around the time this article was originally published, now’s the time to start creating content for your photography marketing channels for June! (I know, I know! How are we nearly at the mid-point of the year already?!)
In June, there are many awareness days and campaigns, so I’m confident that you should be able to find some that are relevant and that could inspire content ideas you’ve not thought of yet.
Here’s a list of June awareness days that you might want to look out for in 2025:
June Awareness Days
Month-long awareness campaigns
There are month-long campaigns during June including:
- Pride Month
- Care for your Grandparents Month
- National Great Outdoors Month
- Age without Apology Month
- National Candy Month
- Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity Awareness Month (SANDS)
Awareness days and week-long campaigns in June
Now, let’s focus on June awareness days and week-long campaigns. There are around a hundred key dates in June including the following:
*Please note that the dates below apply predominantly to the U.K. in the year 2025, and are subject to change year on year. Although they are correct to the best of my knowledge at the time of publication, please check the dates of any awareness campaigns you plan to use. Where I have found links to more information, I have included these below.
Week-long campaigns in June include:
Volunteers’ Week
📅 2–8 June 2025
A nationwide celebration recognizing the invaluable contributions of volunteers across the UK, aiming to inspire more people to engage in volunteering activities.
Garden Wildlife Week
📅 31 May – 6 June 2025
An initiative to raise awareness about the importance of garden ecosystems and encourage people to support and protect local wildlife.
Child Safety Week
📅 2–8 June 2025
An annual campaign by the Child Accident Prevention Trust to promote safety measures and prevent accidents involving children.
World Heart Rhythm Week
📅 2–8 June 2025
A global campaign to raise awareness about heart rhythm disorders and promote heart health.
National Growing for Wellbeing Week
📅 2–8 June 2025
A week dedicated to highlighting the mental and physical health benefits of gardening and growing your own produce.
BNF Healthy Eating Week
📅 9–13 June 2025
Organized by the British Nutrition Foundation, this week encourages healthy eating habits and lifestyles across the UK.
Carers Week
📅 9–15 June 2025
An annual campaign to recognize and support unpaid carers, raising awareness of the challenges they face and the contributions they make.
Aromatherapy Awareness Week
📅 9–15 June 2025
A week to promote the benefits of aromatherapy and the positive impact it can have on health and wellbeing.
Loneliness Awareness Week
📅 9–15 June 2025
A campaign aimed at raising awareness of loneliness and encouraging people to connect with others in their communities.
Men’s Health Week
📅 9–15 June 2025
A week focusing on health issues affecting men, promoting awareness, early detection, and healthy lifestyles.
Bike Week
📅 9–15 June 2025
The UK’s biggest annual celebration of cycling, promoting it as a fun, healthy, and environmentally friendly mode of transport.
Drowning Prevention Week
📅 14–21 June 2025
An initiative by the Royal Life Saving Society UK to educate people on water safety and prevent drowning incidents.
English Wine Week
📅 21–29 June 2025
A celebration of English wines, highlighting the quality and diversity of wines produced in England.
Learning Disability Week
📅16–22 June 2025
A week to raise awareness about learning disabilities, challenge misconceptions, and promote inclusion and understanding.
Awareness days in June 2025: A (non-exhaustive) list of key dates
1 June
- National Say Something Nice Day
- International Children’s Day
- World Milk Day
- Global Day of Parents
2 June
- Cancer Survivors Day
- March for Men
3 June
- World Bicycle Day
4 June
- Hug Your Cat Day
- International Corgi Day
- National Cheese Day
5 June
- World Environment Day
8 June
- National Best Friends Day
- World Oceans Day
14 June
- World Blood Donor Day
15 June
- Beer Day Britain
- Nature Photography Day
16 June
- Father’s Day (UK)
17 June
- Plastic Free Beauty Day
18 June
- International Picnic Day
19 June
- National Writing Day
20 June
- World Refugee Day
- National Clean Air Day
- World Productivity Day
- National Vanilla Milkshake Day
21 June
- World Music Day
- International Yoga Day
- National Selfie Day
- World Giraffe Day
- National Take Your Dog to Work Day
22 June
- World Rainforest Day
- Positive Media Day
23 June
- Public Service Day
- National Let It Go Day
- International Widows Day
- Women in Engineering Day
24 June
- International Fairy Day
25 June
- Global Beatles Day
27 June
- International Sunglasses Day
- National Bingo Day
- International Pineapple Day
28 June
- International Body Piercing Day
- National Cream Tea Day
- National Insurance Awareness Day
29 June
- National Camera Day
30 June
- National Social Media Day
How you could use these June awareness days
1st June
National Say Something Nice Day
Any photographer could use this as a prompt to share a compliment or positive review online – perhaps about a supplier or client? It’s always nice to be on the receiving end of a compliment, so why not give more? Perhaps others will say something nice about you too!
It could also be ideal for portrait photographers who specialise in empowering photography. If you’re a beauty or boudoir photographer, for example, you could use this awareness day to reinforce the message about being kind to yourself and focusing on self-love. Or, make it more about you…talk about how you stay positive as a business owner and some of your favourite ways of boosting your self-esteem when you face tough challenges?
15th June
Nature Photography Day
This is a great one for any photographers who capture locations, wildlife and flora and fauna, as well as family photographers who shoot outdoors. It ties in nicely with the National Great Outdoors Month theme too.
You could share inspirational content including examples of your favourite images, talk about interesting commissions you’ve had or where your photography has been used or featured. You could also create videos or Instagram Reels with a few quick-fire photography tips that your audience could use themselves when taking photographs in nature.
16th June
Father’s Day (U.K.)
Family portrait photographers, naturally, you’ll want to be promoting your family portrait sessions in the lead-up to Father’s Day as photos are the perfect gift for dads and grandparents.
On the day itself, you could share examples of your portraits of children with their Dad and/or Grandfather to show examples of your best work, along with a tribute to fathers in the form of a poem or meme. Behind-the-scenes funnies are always entertaining too – kids pulling their Dad’s nose or ears, that sort of thing!
17th June
Plastic-free Beauty Day
Beauty photographers, this day is an opportunity to promote the makeup brands you work with who have eco-credentials and to highlight some of the looks you’ve captured on recent projects.
21st June
National Selfie Day
You may not take many selfies of yourself but on this awareness day, why not break that habit? Take a selfie on your phone and share it with your online audience so that they see your face or, even better, talk to the camera and share something about yourself or what you’re up to on Selfie Day. Showing your face is a great way to build a connection and a chance to reveal a bit more about you to your followers.
Alternatively, get some engagement going on social media by asking your followers how many selfies of themselves they have on their camera roll, or share some selfie photography tips or phone photo editing hacks as a quick value post, and ask them to comment with their own tips as well.
29th June
National Camera Day
What was your first camera? Which camera do you use now and why? How many cameras do you have? These are all questions you could answer in your content on national camera day.
You could also show off your kit or create a behind-the-scenes timelapse video showing you packing your camera kit for a job or commission, or setting up your photography studio.
Or, you could create a variety of content around why you became a photographer, who inspired you to pick up a camera in the first place, or around your early memories of starting out in your photography career. Talk about why you love photography, how it has enhanced your life and who or what you love to photograph.
Awareness days can inspire tons of content
I hope that this may have helped to show you how you can use some of the June awareness days in your marketing content this year.
Of course, these are just some ideas I’ve put together. I share them just to give you some quick-fire inspiration on how to apply them to your content. Don’t overthink this!
Remember, there are many more awareness days in June than those listed above. Cherry-pick a few of the June awareness days that speak to you and then interpret them however you wish.
P.S. Keep checking back to this blog for more similar articles. This is the sixth instalment of a monthly blog series that’s focused on awareness days and how to interpret them to create content ideas.
Related:
May Awareness Days
April Awareness Days
March Awareness Days
Good luck with your June content planning!
